German for residents

German for residents was the title of a television program on ORF . It ran from 1957 to approx. 1962 as an unusually designed program on adult education .

Ernst Hagen , who also wrote the screenplay, appeared as a teacher in a classroom, and the literary and theater critic Hans Weigel co-authored many episodes .

The music with the distinctive song Deutsch für Inländer, Deutsch für Inländer , always sung at the beginning , comes from Norbert Pawlicki , who always performed his works himself on the piano.

Participants as pupils were Ilse Hanel , Paula Pfluger , Raoul Retzer and Oskar Wegrostek , and Miriam Dreifuss also appeared as a guest in later episodes .

Case studies were repeatedly presented, so that long-lost AHS lower-level or secondary school knowledge of the German language was refreshed in a playful way, and Ernst Hagen always read bizarre advertisements from newspapers, where people with job offers or sales of all kinds, sometimes companies with product advertisements unintentionally exposed in completely flawed German, the texts were repeatedly faded in for the audience at home in front of the television sets to read along.

The individual actors even recited the individual mistakes that they had now learned to correct in a singing manner; in order to make the whole thing lifelike, Oskar Wegrostek appeared in a role as a grocery retailer in his shop; in Austria this profession is better known as “grocer”.

The broadcast was repeated in summer 2012 on ORF III. According to the ORF, following a telephone request from Peter Thomas Suschny from the Austrian Advertising Museum, there are no plans to publish this program, which is also of great educational value, on DVD.

Web link

• German for residents at fernsehserien.de